on gconf-edit (Re: [Usability] GNOME 2.6+ usability: points of critique)

[Robert Fendt <rmfendt web de>]

And thus spake Robert Fendt <rmfendt web de>
Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:59:35 +0200:

> > As far as I remember you dont have to use gconf-editor, and you are just
> > asking for trouble by calling it a "'regedit' rip-off".
> 
> Why? The gconf-editor clones the principle of the Windows registry editor
> almost 1:1, albeit XML-based. I never liked the registry in Windows, why
> should the concept become any better in GNOME?

Okay, I realised by reading the other posts that people are apparently
very touchy when it comes to comparing gconf-edit and regedit. I do not
want to imply that the Windows registry and the GNOME XML configuration
structure have technical similarities. While the former is a plain
catastrophe, the latter thankfully is not. The user interface principle is
very similar however. And that is what I find annoying; it is tedious to
use and not concise. I hope people may now forgive me my crude comparison
between gconf-editor and regedit. I must have been _really_ in a bad mood
this morning.

Regards,
Robert